Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction in Memory of Robbie Robertson, presented by the Kiwanis Club of DartmouthThe Atlantic Coast: A Natural History by Nova Scotian naturalist Harry Thurston, published by Greystone Books in association with the David Suzuki Foundation

Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingNecessaries and Sufficiencies: Planter Society in Londonderry, Onslow and Truro Townships, 1761-1780 by Carol Campbell and James F. Smith, published by Cape Breton University Press